[valerostudio]

Any chance we can have this too?
http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/vie ... 58#p116458

[JDHill]

Maxwell currently supports z-clipping (see Scene Manager > Camera > Z-Clip Planes, make sure Show Advanced View is enabled in the page's toolbar), but not clipping by arbitrary boundaries, if that is what you are referring to.

[valerostudio]

No, not really. If you look at the Indigo forum basically you can right click a section plane in SU and tell the engine to cut the model there and hide the rest. Its like using the Zorro2 script without actually cutting your model.

[JDHill]

I'll take a look and see if we can do that too.

[crcgrp]

This would be fantastic!!! The z-clip option is more time consuming because, AFAIK, there is no way to know the distance of the camera in sketchup to be able to input correct values into the Z-clip parameters.

[JDHill]

You don't really need to know the distance, because you can use the Pick DOF, Z-Clip, or Z-Buffer tool (it is in the plugin's menu & toolbar) to set those things interactively. As you use it, it reports the distance of the points you are picking in SketchUp's Measurements readout.

[crcgrp]

I've messed around with it, but it doesn't seem easy, at least for me, to use as would the section plane. Since choosing the z-clip near/far snaps to sketchup points I find it hard to choose where I'd like. Not complaining, and maybe I'm not doing it correctly.

[zak]

Any progress ?!

[JDHill]

Not yet -- to be done correctly, this requires new functionality in Maxwell itself.

[Delineator]

I would check out the Zorro plugin. We've been using it recently, its pretty awesome. The only caveat is that it requires a few extras steps (make a copy of the SU file, because cuts are permanent). You can also cut by the section plane OR draw your cuts in freehand 3D

http://www.alexhogrefe.com/blog/2012/1/ ... rro-2.html

Works great!